This previous weekend, Minnesota’s Canterbury Park hosted a $400 NLH Monster Stack Occasion, which attracted 1,116 entrants and supplied up a $368,280 prize pool. That made it the venue’s largest-ever standalone match, which was fairly the accomplishment given it is one of many Midwest’s longest-running cardrooms.
The prize pool, paid out to the highest 126 finishers, was initially slated to pay $61,000 to first place with the runner-up slated to obtain $41,280. In the meantime, the Eleventh-place finisher was initially to obtain $5,155.
Nonetheless, nobody obtained these quantities as the ultimate 11 gamers labored a deal. Finally, they every secured at the very least $15,540 in prize cash, whereas chip chief “Loopy” Carl Carodenuto, a widely known Minnesota grinder, was awarded the trophy and $44,000 in prize cash.
Canterbury Park Monster Stack Outcomes
*Denotes 11-way deal.
Different acquainted names to money the match have been Steve Wazwaz (nineteenth – $2,980), Kanat Ozturk (thirty eighth – $1,215), Wealthy Alsup (thirty ninth – $1,215), Todd Fisher (forty seventh – $1,100), Max Havlish (66th – $970), and DJ Buckley (seventieth – $970).
It’s not the primary time a match has ended with so many gamers working a deal. In actual fact, final June on the Wynn Las Vegas a $600 buy-in Girls Occasion made headlines when the ultimate 15 gamers determined to work a deal, which sparked a debate inside the poker group.
Typically talking, many on the skin trying in aren’t a fan of double-digit offers, however on the finish of the day, the gamers really within the match get to name the pictures.
As for Carodenuto, it was simply one other win in his laundry record of poker accomplishments. He was the first-ever participant to win three Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) titles and almost $1.4 million in lifetime match earnings in keeping with The Hendon Mob. That features a career-high $313,078 for successful the August 2024 Arizona State Poker Championship.
It was the second massive match Carodenuto gained at Canterbury Park as he beforehand gained the 2014 $300 Chea & Deep, which is now the venue’s third-largest in-house match ever with 916 runners.
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Chad Holloway
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